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UNITED STATES JOHN GIBBONS, OF WEST TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO THE UNION HARDWARE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ROPE HALTER BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,328, dated April 8, 1884:.

Application filed January 21, 1884.

Be it known that I, J our? GIBBONS, of the village of West Troy, county of Albany, and

State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Halter-Rope Buckles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fastening devices which are used in halters and cattle-ties to form the latter in connection with a snap-hook, or to produce the lead-loop of a halter, and which are made to attach to the rope at a sufiicient distance'from the end of the latter to connect the end therewith, and thus produce a loop thereon.

The object and purpose of my invention is to simplify the construction, to reduce the weight of such fastenings, and to adapt them to connect with the rope on a line of attachment parallel or nearly parallel to the latter, without necessitating the kinking and tortuous threading of the rope through the device to attach it to the latter. Accompanying this specification, and formin ga part of it, are two plates of drawings, containing three figures, illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter-reference used in all of them, of which-- Figure 1 shows the parts of the device as threaded onto the halter-rope, but not connected. Fig. 2 shows the same parts exhibited in Fig. 1, but illustrates them as connected; and Fig. 3 shows a halter the lead-loop of which is connected by means of my improved device and a snap-hook on the end of the rope.

The several parts of the device are designated by letter-reference, and their functions are explained as follows:

The letter A indicates the body of the fast ener or buckle, made with a rounded-out interior surface, B, and an exterior convex surface, B", thus shaped that it may fit around the rope to the extent of the width of its encircling face.

The letter indicates an extension of the inclosing plate or body part, and which extension is made to bevel obtusely from the roundedout part, and is constructed with an elongated opening, 0, fort-he passage of the halter-rope R, and so arranged that when the rope is threaded through said opening it will be parallel or nearly parallel with the interior sur- (No model.)

face of the buckle or fastener where rounded out to receive the rope.

The letters designates aspur projected from the interiorly-rounded-out surface, and the function of which, when forced into the entered rope, is to secure the latter within the device.

The letter F indicates a feather provided with an abrupt termination, d, and arranged on the outer face of the body.

The letter Gindicates a ring made with a groove, g, and the offset eye E, said ring being adapted to be threaded onto the rope, passed on over the fastening device and feather by means of the groove 9', so as to include the rope therein, and then turned so that the side of the ring will come in contact with the abrupt termination of the feather to prevent its slipping off, the eye E being adapted to connect with a snap-hook or other means on the end of the rope to form the loop. When the device is thus made, and the rope is threaded through the opening 0, with the spur forced into the rope by. pressing the latter up into the rounded interior surface of the body part,

and the ring G-is slipped on over the device,

with its groove 9 furnishing a passage-way for the feather F as the ring is turned so as to bring its edge in abutting contact with the abrupt end of the feather, the device is firmly secured to the rope without bends in the latter.

In a former patent granted to me October 16, 1883, N 0. 286,808, ascmi-cylinder provided with a hook at one end adapted to in part encircle the rope, an eye at its other end, and an intermediately-arranged elongated opening and spur were combined to perform the same office as the device herein shown; but said patented fastening device differs from the one herein shown, in the fact that the hook used in the former has been omitted, a feather formed on what is denominated the half-cylinder, and an encirclingring used in place of said hook In another application bearing even date herewith a device constructed likethat herein shown is therein'illustrated and described; but in said cotemporaneous application the eye is shown as formed on the obtusely beveled and prolonged extension of the body-piece, and in that shown herein the eye for connection with the end of the rope is formed on the inclosingring, and not on the prolongation of thebody part, as in the other.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

In a halter-rope buckle or fastener, the combination of a body part made with a roundedout interior surface and convex exterior surface, a spur projected out from said interior surface, a beveled extension projected from the end of said body, as shown, and constructed with an elongated opening adapted for the threaded passage of the rope, a feather projected from the body part on its exterior JOHN GIBBONS.

Witnesses:

GEO. R. MENERLY, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

